whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation
(noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod; “The teacher often flogged the students”; “The children were severely trounced”
cane, flog, lambaste, lambast
(verb) beat with a cane
Source: WordNet® 3.1
flogging (countable and uncountable, plural floggings)
Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
flogging
present participle of flog
Source: Wiktionary
Flog"ging, a. & n.
Definition: from Flog, v. t. Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings.
– Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.
Flog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Flogging.] Etym: [Cf. Scot. fleg blow, stroke, kick, AS. flocan to strike, or perh. fr. L. flagellare to whip. Cf. Flagellate.]
Definition: To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 November 2024
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
